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A heart-breaking story that left reviewers breathless 💀

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a thing that freaks me out about AI, that others have maybe stated more eloquently: if you've worked in an org/company of any size, you know there's a lot of competency redundancy/safety nets; capable people pick up the slack & correct errors of folks above, beside, and below them in the hierarchy.

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I wrote about Clarence Thomas's anti-intellectual, anti-trans concurrence in United States v. Skrmetti, and what it says about how far the right has fallen into conspiratorialism

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James Bond will return in "Enormous Symmetrical Thing in Midair While Someone Pitch Bends a Synthesizer"

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This is one of those reviews that felt actively impossible to write; I'll write a better one in five or ten years after I've properly thought this through. However, if you are the kind of person who worries you might miss the best book of the year, good news, I found it:

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just got an email from a publicist with the subject "[Author's Book] Has Received Two Star Reviews" and I'm like yeah, they're brutal out there, such honesty is necessary though

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Buffalo’s acting mayor is a staunch police union ally who has attacked efforts to crack down on police misconduct, & has also called for rollbacks to the 2019 bail reform law. He lost last night in his primary, and it wasn’t close.

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philosophy prof once told me "if nobody is mad at you, you're doing something wrong." (Did clarify that people being mad at you is not proof you're doing something right, BUT.)

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NBCC member Jake Casella Brookins reviewed Darkly Lem's "Transmentation | Transience" for Locus:

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This is one of those reviews that felt actively impossible to write; I'll write a better one in five or ten years after I've properly thought this through. However, if you are the kind of person who worries you might miss the best book of the year, good news, I found it:

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"Mamdani claims to be for the people, yet our investigation could not turn up a single picture of him as a street urchin like in 'Newsies' or 'Oliver Twist'."

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Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

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brad lander primary chuck schumer

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had some baking panics (starter wilding out in the temperature swings, scale going on the fritz at a critical juncture), but Emergency Math and Emergency Small Banneton saved the day

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if this story throws some stumbling blocks in his way, awesome, but it's really bleak that "conflict of interest" is more actionable than "unashamed Nazi enacting explicit Nazi policies"

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I have bad news for everybody though, the Yoda level of "don't read your reviews" is "don't read your mentions." oho, not so simple now, is it? prepared to do battle in my replies, you are

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imagine if this worked. IMAGINE IF THIS WORKED. imagine if the Epstein Caucus is defeated in an absolute tidal wave of voters who want their electeds to CARE and DO THINGS. imagine primarying all the nation’s Schumers and Pelosis with people who understand they work for us and take that seriously

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back when a muddy palette actually evoked realism

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Too many ice cream places have confused "maximalist" for "artisanal", he said, bravely

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returning to some Newfie folk tunes from my youth and must regretfully report that they are catching simply massive strays from Ryan Coogler's "Sinners"

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Hi this is extremely fucked!

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Recently had the perennial discussion about a DS9 where Garak/Bashir are as they're meant to be, but there's also a better world where the TNG showrunners gave us 7 seasons of this

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no words

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We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

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Post a warning.

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I can understand fear in the moment—of an angry person, a physical threat, an animal. I absolutely cannot wrap my head around living in cowardice the way Jeffries and Schumer do.

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The US is arming a literal genocide, has blocked international action against that genocide, and has now started a war with a sovereign nation by bombing some power plants its own intelligence reports are simply power plants - all on behalf of the country committing genocide.

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All they want is death and more death. Damn them.

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Very pleased to hear the Translated Hugo idea getting discussed here (around 22:30); more on that...soon...

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developing serious antipathy towards the trend of very short chapters

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